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<title>secret news.</title>
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<title>via Abstruse Goose &#187; How to Teach Yourself Programming</title>
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<title>nothing beats Sriracha... except homemade Habanero Sauce</title>
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<title>Approximations</title>
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<soup:attributes>{"tags":[],"type":"quote","title":"\u003Cp\u003EChris Hedges, \u003Cem\u003EEmpire of Illusion\u003C/em\u003E, 2009, page 49\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EI recently picked up\u003Cem\u003E Empire of Illusion\u003C/em\u003E and \u003Cem\u003EDeath of the Liberal Class\u003C/em\u003E by Chris Hedges. \u00a0I will do my best not post block quote after block quote from these books, but this one screamed for sharing. \u00a0Please validate me by reflecting my taste back through a contrived system that substitutes simple button pressing for informed dialogue and engaged discussion.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E(via \u003Ca href=\"http://absurdlakefront.tumblr.com/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\"\u003Eabsurdlakefront\u003C/a\u003E)\u003C/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cDon\u2019t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?\u201d\u003C/p\u003E","source":null,"body":"An image-based culture communicates through narratives, pictures, and pseudo-drama. Scandalous affairs, hurricanes, untimely deaths, train wrecks \u2014 these events play well on computer screens and television. International diplomacy, labor union negotiations, and convoluted bailout packages do not yield exciting personal narratives or stimulating images. A governor who patronizes call girls becomes a huge news story. A politician who proposes some regulatory reform or advocates curbing wasteful spending is boring. Kings, queens, emperors once used their court conspiracies to divert their subjects. Today cinematic, political, and journalistic celebrities distract us with their personal foibles and scandals. They create our public mythology. Acting, politics, and sports have become, as they were in Nero\u2019s reign, interchangeable. In the age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we neither seek nor want honesty or reality. Reality is complicated. Reality is boring. We are incapable or unwilling to handle its confusion. We ask to be indulged and comforted by cliches, stereotypes, and inspirational messages that tell us we can be whoever we seek to be, that we live in the greatest country on earth, that we are endowed with superior moral and physical qualities, and that our future will always be glorious and prosperous, either because of our own attributes or our national character or because we are blessed by God. In this world, all that matters is the consistency of our belief systems. The ability to amplify lies, to repeat them and have surrogates repeat them in endless loops of news cycles, gives lies and mythical narratives the aura of uncontested truth. We become trapped in the linguistic prison of incessant repetition. We are fed words and phrases like \u003Ci\u003Ewar on terror\u003C/i\u003E or \u003Ci\u003Epro-life\u003C/i\u003E or \u003Ci\u003Echange\u003C/i\u003E, and within these narrow parameters, all complex thought, ambiguity, and self-criticism vanish"}</soup:attributes>
<description>&lt;p&gt;"An image-based culture communicates through narratives, pictures, and pseudo-drama. Scandalous affairs, hurricanes, untimely deaths, train wrecks &#8212; these events play well on computer screens and television. International diplomacy, labor union negotiations, and convoluted bailout packages do not yield exciting personal narratives or stimulating images. A governor who patronizes call girls becomes a huge news story. A politician who proposes some regulatory reform or advocates curbing wasteful spending is boring. Kings, queens, emperors once used their court conspiracies to divert their subjects. Today cinematic, political, and journalistic celebrities distract us with their personal foibles and scandals. They create our public mythology. Acting, politics, and sports have become, as they were in Nero&#8217;s reign, interchangeable. In the age of images and entertainment, in an age of instant emotional gratification, we neither seek nor want honesty or reality. Reality is complicated. Reality is boring. We are incapable or unwilling to handle its confusion. We ask to be indulged and comforted by cliches, stereotypes, and inspirational messages that tell us we can be whoever we seek to be, that we live in the greatest country on earth, that we are endowed with superior moral and physical qualities, and that our future will always be glorious and prosperous, either because of our own attributes or our national character or because we are blessed by God. In this world, all that matters is the consistency of our belief systems. The ability to amplify lies, to repeat them and have surrogates repeat them in endless loops of news cycles, gives lies and mythical narratives the aura of uncontested truth. We become trapped in the linguistic prison of incessant repetition. We are fed words and phrases like &lt;i&gt;war on terror&lt;/i&gt; or &lt;i&gt;pro-life&lt;/i&gt; or &lt;i&gt;change&lt;/i&gt;, and within these narrow parameters, all complex thought, ambiguity, and self-criticism vanish"&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ndash;&lt;p&gt;Chris Hedges, &lt;em&gt;Empire of Illusion&lt;/em&gt;, 2009, page 49&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I recently picked up&lt;em&gt; Empire of Illusion&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Death of the Liberal Class&lt;/em&gt; by Chris Hedges. &#160;I will do my best not post block quote after block quote from these books, but this one screamed for sharing. &#160;Please validate me by reflecting my taste back through a contrived system that substitutes simple button pressing for informed dialogue and engaged discussion.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a href="http://absurdlakefront.tumblr.com/" class="tumblr_blog"&gt;absurdlakefront&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;

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<title>"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't ...</title>
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